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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm surprised to see that the total number of children ages 5 to 17 continues to decline in DC.   Judging from posts here, you'd think DC had far more children now than in the past.  There may be lots of kids in strollers, but their parents tend to move when they hit school age.   DC seems more and more like Seattle:  very friendly to singles and dogs, but not too many kids in middle school to be found.

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This seems puzzling at first, but isn't if you think about it for more than a second.  Poor people have many children.  Affluent families have few children.  DC's households are getting more affluent.  That means there are fewer and fewer large households.  Ten years ago, it was common to see 900 square foot rowhouses with extended families and a half dozen children.  In another 10 or 20 years, we'll see family sizes trend towards the norm of an average of 1.5 kids per household.

The decline in children 5 to 17 is just another indicator that DC is healing.[/quote]

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